If by "requires" you mean in some absolute fundamental logical/technical sense, you may well be right. This might be a "marketing" restriction for all any of us knows.
OTOH I can assure you it requires a PDSE in the sense that if you compile a program using COBOL 5.2 and attempt to bind the resulting object code into an executable, the binder will fail if SYSLMOD references a PDS -- so in that sense I assure you that COBOL 5.2 "requires" a PDSE. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 1:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COBOL v5 I would argue the word "requires" I suspect (and cannot prove) that COBOL 5 can work perfectly fine without a PDSE. I would be happy to be proven wrong. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
